The Pebble Spotter's Guide
A beautifully illustrated introduction to the mindful pleasure of pebble spotting

Hidden in plain sight along every shoreline, these amazing consequences of wind, sea, and time all tell stories of our landscapes. In this spirited guide to pebbles, richly illustrated throughout, passionate geologist and pebble spotter Clive J. Mitchell gives practical advice on how to identify 40 pebbles and where to find them, making a trip to the beach or riverbank all the more interesting. The pebbles he introduces range from the humble flint to feldspar veins, serpentinite, granite ovoids, and the holy grail of pebble hunting, the rare rhomb porphyry. The book includes a space for the reader to ruminate on their own findings, taking note of the treasures that they pick up along the way. This is the perfect introduction to everything there is to know about the mindful pleasure of pebble spotting—and there is much treasure to find.
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The Pebble Spotter's Guide
A beautifully illustrated introduction to the mindful pleasure of pebble spotting

Hidden in plain sight along every shoreline, these amazing consequences of wind, sea, and time all tell stories of our landscapes. In this spirited guide to pebbles, richly illustrated throughout, passionate geologist and pebble spotter Clive J. Mitchell gives practical advice on how to identify 40 pebbles and where to find them, making a trip to the beach or riverbank all the more interesting. The pebbles he introduces range from the humble flint to feldspar veins, serpentinite, granite ovoids, and the holy grail of pebble hunting, the rare rhomb porphyry. The book includes a space for the reader to ruminate on their own findings, taking note of the treasures that they pick up along the way. This is the perfect introduction to everything there is to know about the mindful pleasure of pebble spotting—and there is much treasure to find.
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The Pebble Spotter's Guide

The Pebble Spotter's Guide

by Clive Mitchell
The Pebble Spotter's Guide

The Pebble Spotter's Guide

by Clive Mitchell

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A beautifully illustrated introduction to the mindful pleasure of pebble spotting

Hidden in plain sight along every shoreline, these amazing consequences of wind, sea, and time all tell stories of our landscapes. In this spirited guide to pebbles, richly illustrated throughout, passionate geologist and pebble spotter Clive J. Mitchell gives practical advice on how to identify 40 pebbles and where to find them, making a trip to the beach or riverbank all the more interesting. The pebbles he introduces range from the humble flint to feldspar veins, serpentinite, granite ovoids, and the holy grail of pebble hunting, the rare rhomb porphyry. The book includes a space for the reader to ruminate on their own findings, taking note of the treasures that they pick up along the way. This is the perfect introduction to everything there is to know about the mindful pleasure of pebble spotting—and there is much treasure to find.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781911657309
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Publication date: 06/10/2021
Pages: 112
Sales rank: 596,289
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 6.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Clive Mitchell is the classic British geologist with check shirt and beard, a beer drinker and passionate about rocks. Born in Bristol, he grew up in the village of Congresbury on the northern edge of the Mendips in North Somerset. Family holidays in Cornwall and Devon were spent collecting pebbles on the beach, his first introduction to geology. Scroll forward fifty years, Clive lives with his family in Nottingham and is an industrial minerals geologist at the British Geological Survey. He has been lucky enough to travel all over the planet especially Africa and the Middle East working on mineral resources. Clive is an enthusiastic geoscience communicator and can often be found online, especially on twitter, helping to identify rocks for keen amateur geologists.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

A-Z of Pebbles 12-101

Features

The Secret of Finding Pebbles 24

The Art of Pebbles 40

The Magic of Pebbles 56

Skimming Stones 74

Pebble Poetry 88

Glossary 102

Index 108

Recommended guides 110

Acknowledgements 111

Author biography 112

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